Man gets 20-years jail for raping minor

rape case lodged in London in May 2017. The petitioner Jose Inacio Cota had sought the quashing of extradition proceedings.

BALASORE: A court in Odisha's Balasore district sentenced a man to 20-years imprisonment for raping a minor girl. Additional District and Sessions Judge, Jagdish Prasad Mohanty while pronouncing the judgment also slapped a fine of Rs 38,000 on the convict Kumar Das, (26), of Baliapal. According to the prosecution, on May 17, 2019, Das entered the house of the victim when she was alone and took her out promising to marry her in the temple. Instead, he took her to a secluded place and raped her.

SC accepts CEC advice on Goa-Tamnar project

The Supreme Court has accepted the Central Empowered Committee's (CEC) recommendation to utilise the existing 220 KV powerline alignment in Goa instead of cutting down fresh forest cover, to lay a new 400 KV line as part of the Goa-Tamnar transmission project. A bench of justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai gave its nod to the proposal submitted by the CEC in its April 23, 2021 report.

The CEC told the court that the project proposed by the Goa Tamnar Transmission Project Limited would be detrimental to the fragile ecosystem of the Western Ghats.

"CEC was of the view that instead of clearing canopy of virgin forest cover along 10.50 km long corridor with 46 m ROW in Goa State, the proposed 400 Kv line should be drawn along the existing 220 Kv corridor line in Goa State after establishing 400 Kv corridor connectivity between Mapusa and Sangod and 220 KV line between Sangod and Xeldem.